It was in her eyes, in her greetings to old friends: it showed itself hourly in courtesies and kindnesses.
She was very kind to Latimer, too.

She did not deceive him.

She told him she liked better to be with him than with any one else,--it would have been difficult to deny to him what was apparent to an entire summer colony,--but she explained that that did not mean she would marry him.
She announced this when the signs she knew made it seem necessary.

She announced it in what was for her a roundabout way, by remarking suddenly that she did not intend to marry for several years.
This brought Latimer to his feet and called forth from him remarks so eloquent that Helen found it very difficult to keep her own.

She as though she had been caught in an undertow and was being whirled out to sea.